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OpenStats City Score, ranking history, and local readings for Elliot Lake.
City Score #46 (2022) → #119 (2025)
Elliot Lake sits at City Score rank #119 with a standing of 45%, from 7 of 8 open-data pillars (tax, construction, connectivity, indoor air, water, seismic hazard, growth, safety). Missing pillars score at median standing so thin coverage cannot inflate the rank. Dropping 73 places versus 2022 (#46 → #119).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #151 of 172 (2025); residential mill rate rank #1 of 172 (20.97 mill rate). Full tables and method notes live on each study edition; atlas readings for the same slug open from the topic buttons.
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Documented pro, junior, university, and high-school teams tied to Elliot Lake.
Published residential mill-rate context for Elliot Lake.
Bouldering area north of Elliot Lake with more than 150 problems, a draw for climbers who also want Algoma lake access.
Heritage stop that keeps the uranium story visible for visitors and newcomers who arrive for lakes and trails instead of shift work.
Stanleigh, the final Elliot Lake uranium mine, closed on June 30, 1996.
Where Elliot Lake sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Elliot Lake was a planned community built for uranium, not a village that slowly grew into a city. Municipal history traces the Improvement District of the mid-1950s through township and town status to cityhood in 1991, with Rio Algom and Denison shaping housing and work. The last mine, Stanleigh, closed on June 30, 1996. What stayed was the lake country and a deliberate pivot: Retirement Living, tourism, and small-business diversification instead of waiting for another ore contract.
The outdoors pitch is specific. Mt. Dufour Ski Hill sits in the heart of the city. Stone Ridge Golf Course, Sheriff Creek Wildlife Sanctuary, Mississagi Provincial Park, paddling water, and one of the larger insured ATV networks in the country fill the calendar across seasons. Nearly 300 kilometres of groomed snowmobile trails and The Nooks bouldering area north of town keep weekenders and year-round residents on the same maps. The Nuclear and Mining Museum, open since 1963, still explains how the place got on the map in the first place.
Ojibwe place memory names the lake Mooshgodne'gamiing, the lake is full, for its fish. The city acknowledges Serpent River, Mississauga, and Sagamok First Nations on Robinson-Huron Treaty land. Quirke Lake and the W.H. Collins Hall Centre keep prospecting lore close at hand, while Pearson Plaza carries everyday errands. Elliot Lake reads as an Algoma community that survived boom and bust by selling lake air, trails, and a quieter second chapter rather than pretending the mines never defined the skyline.
Drawn from City of Elliot Lake - Local History, City of Elliot Lake - Tourism, City of Elliot Lake, Elliot Lake Standard.
City Score from 2016–2025 across eight open-data pillars. Individual study placements are listed in the panels below.
Each study below is its own ranking. Where a study has more than one edition for this city, the chart shows standing across those years only.
Connectivity · OpenStats
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Cities ranked by estimated best advertised download (Mbps). Anchored to the current ISED National Broadband Data vintage, then backcast along a national speed curve with city-specific fiber-arrival and 50/10 availability paths so relative ranks can change over the decade. Not a claim of audited historical hex maps for every year.
10 editions · 2016–2025
Construction · OpenStats
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Cities ranked by calendar-year building permit value. Direct rows sum Statistics Canada Table 34-10-0292-01. Cities without a direct reading use population × provincial per-capita permit intensity (estimated), so every seed city has a year-varying construction signal.
10 editions · 2016–2025
Composite · OpenStats
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Dimensional average of OpenStats open-data pillars for each panel year 2016–2025: tax, construction, connectivity, indoor air, water, seismic hazard, population growth, and crime severity. Each series is scored 0–1 within its edition; series in the same pillar are averaged, then all eight pillars are averaged with equal weight. Missing pillars score at median standing (0.5). Growth and CSI use StatCan annual tables; permits, mill rates, and broadband use live rows plus documented year-varying estimates where needed. Radon, water, and PGA may be survey/model vintages carried forward and are flagged when static for more than two years. External commercial livability lists are never inputs.
10 editions · 2016–2025
Safety · OpenStats
OpenStats
Communities ranked by Statistics Canada Crime Severity Index (Table 35-10-0026-01). Rank 1 is highest CSI (worse). Values are CMA where a metro match exists, otherwise provincial CSI. Hometown pages label the grain.
10 editions · 2016–2025
Water · OpenStats
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Communities ranked by municipal drinking-water hardness (mg/L as CaCO₃). Hardness changes slowly; the atlas vintage is carried across panel years and flagged when static for more than two years.
10 editions · 2016–2025
Water · OpenStats
OpenStats
Communities ranked by reported lead (µg/L) on the OpenStats water atlas. Carried across panel years until annual municipal report panels are ingested.
10 editions · 2016–2025
sports · OpenStats
OpenStats
Cities ranked by weighted count of documented local teams (pro, junior, university, high-school hubs). Rank 1 = deepest documented sports footprint among covered seed cities. Not a claim about on-field success. See sports methodology for weights and gaps.
Single edition · 2025
Only one published edition places Elliot Lake in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
Growth · OpenStats
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Cities ranked by year-over-year population growth from Statistics Canada annual CSD estimates (Table 17-10-0155-01). Rank 1 is fastest growth. A few places without a clean CSD match use a provincial-path estimate anchored to seed population.
10 editions · 2016–2025
Property tax · OpenStats
OpenStats
Municipalities ranked by residential mill rate. Rank 1 is the highest rate. Published municipal years are used when available; gaps are interpolated or follow the provincial median path so the tax pillar moves year to year for every city.
10 editions · 2016–2025
Hazards · OpenStats
OpenStats
Communities ranked by NRCan peak ground acceleration (higher = stronger shaking hazard). Rank 1 is highest PGA. The seismic model is multi-year; values are carried across the City Score panel and flagged as static until NRCan publishes a new generation.
10 editions · 2016–2025
Livability
MoneySense
Annual composite ranking of Canadian municipalities on economy, housing, crime, health, and weather.
4 editions · 2014–2018
Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.
Mooshgodne'gamiing is the Ojibwe name for Elliot Lake, meaning the lake is full in reference to fish.
Stanleigh, the final Elliot Lake uranium mine, closed on June 30, 1996.
The Nuclear and Mining Museum opened in 1963 during an earlier mining downturn.
Municipal tourism highlights nearly 300 km of groomed snowmobile trails and a major insured ATV network.
In-city Algoma ski hill promoted as one of the region's best, sitting right in the heart of Elliot Lake rather than a long drive away.
Heritage stop that keeps the uranium story visible for visitors and newcomers who arrive for lakes and trails instead of shift work.
Bouldering area north of Elliot Lake with more than 150 problems, a draw for climbers who also want Algoma lake access.
City-listed wildlife sanctuary for quieter walks between ski season, ATV weekends, and golf at Stone Ridge.
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